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This morning Microsoft released a letter outlining its position and intent to foster interoperability with the Open XML file format (a recently passed ECMA international standard) and also raised concerns about competitor activity to interfere with our
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I hate that I missed Bill's keynote at CES, but this article provides a solid recap of some interesting philosophy on the future of technology and how we use it to drive the connected experience. Coming from the wireless space, I am very comfortable with
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Time to blow the dust off of the ol' blog and chime in on our latest news. I spent some time with the Novell folks last week and must say that I am very excited about the work we'll be doing together in the coming months. Here is a link to Microsoft's
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Today marks a very important day on interoperability for Microsoft. Following a series of events that include the Open Specification Promise , the Interoperability Executive Customer Council , the Interoperability Vendor Alliance , and of course our partnership
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If you have 30 minutes and are keenly interested in how Microsoft's new Open Specification Promise works, check out this video at Channel 9. Included in the clip are Jean Paoli, General Manager of Interoperability & XML Architecture; Tom Robertson,
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This morning Zend and Microsoft announced a technical collaboration to drive improved performance for running PHP on Windows Server. Having worked with both technologies on multiple projects, I think this is timely and a great effort toward improved interoperability
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I owe Chris Vidotto and team down under for bringing this to my attention (they blog a day ahead of me of course). The news? Biztalk 2006 was written up in InfoWorld recieving a rating of Excellent for enterprise interoperability. Read the article or
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It wasn't a month ago that IBM announced a sweeping patent reform strategy that - if adopted - "could help curb the rising wave of patent disputes and patent litigation" as reported over at seekingalpha.com . For further reading, you can download a pdf
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My guess is that most people don't even realize how 'at risk' they are to online threats these days. And what better way to take advantage of someone than by going through a trusted channel – their inbox. In response to these threats, Microsoft released
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...Or how well it works together. Its really about how well we connect people, data, and diverse systems to make processes more efficient right? It should not matter what the pieces are. Leave the choice of configuration to those who best know what they
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Connecting People, Data, and Diverse Systems… A few weeks (maybe months) back, I wrote about interoperability being people first . The context of this statement evolved from the notion that ‘work’ is what drives the requirements for the underlying technical
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Furthering our commitment to working broadly with the IT community to drive interoperability, Microsoft announced an Open Specification Promise this morning to make a number of web service specs freely available to the development community. Follow the
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…Go along way. And we see the results of such efforts paying off in a big way for the government of Massachusetts who decided earlier this week to leverage a new openDocument Format converter built for Microsoft Office. You may remember that, a few months
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I will keep an ongoing compile for this one if anybody cares to chime in... We have all seen it. At center stage, the pseudo-hip and edgy teen 'star' of "Dodge Ball the Movie" (and now defunct series 'Ed') hops out of a box and introduces himself as a
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In a post I made on June 14, I commented that Microsoft is careful not to forget that interoperability is, first and foremost, about business (processes and work flows), and, fundamentally, about people . The needs of both suggest how IT should behave...
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